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Election 2012 | NPR Live Blog

  • 2:14 am
    So, we end the campaign where we began. President Obama will remain in the White House. Democrats will control the Senate. Republicans will control the House. Now, can they work together to address the nation's challenges? That remains to be seen, of course. In the meantime, scroll down to see how the long 2012 race finished. 11/07/12
  • 2:00 am
    As he finishes, the president returns to a theme he first laid out in the 2004 keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. America is not a collection of "red states and blue states," he says. "We are and forever will be the United States of America!" 11/07/12
  • 1:58 am
    Talking of hope, the president says he isn't speaking of "blind optimism." He's talking, Obama says, about the faith that "something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." 11/07/12
  • 1:56 am
    "I am hopeful tonight because I have seen the spirit of working America," Obama says, for example in the bravery of Navy SEALs "who charged up the stairs through darkness and danger" and the courage and resilience of those now rebuilding New York and New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy. 11/07/12
  • 1:53 am
    The president says he will return to the White House, "more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the work that lies ahead." 11/07/12
  • 1:52 am
    "Whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you and you have made me a better president," Obama says. 11/07/12
  • 1:49 am
    "When we go through tough times ... [and] make big decisions as a country," Obama says, "it necessarily stirs up passions." But such arguments, he adds, "are a mark of our liberty." 11/07/12
  • 1:45 am
    And the president thanks his daughters -- though he jokes that he needs to tell them "one dog is enough." That's a reference to a promise he made to them during the 2008 campaign -- to get a dog. 11/07/12
  • 1:45 am
    He tells first lady Michelle Obama that tonight he loves her more than ever. 11/07/12
  • 1:44 am
    The president thanks the "happy warrior," Vice President Joe Biden. 11/07/12
  • 1:42 am
    When he spoke with Mitt Romney this evening, the president says, he "congratulated him and Paul Ryan on a hard-fought campaign." Both he and Romney, says Obama, "love this country deeply." Obama says he will talk with Romney in coming weeks about ways they might work together. 11/07/12
  • 1:40 am
    "We know in our hearts that for the Untied States of America the best is yet to come," says the president. 11/07/12
  • 1:39 am
    "Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward," President Obama says as he begins his victory speech. 11/07/12
  • 1:37 am
    President Obama, the first lady and their daughters just came on stage in Chicago -- with Signed, Sealed, Delivered playing, of course. 11/07/12
  • 1:32 am
    The tightest House race in the nation may turn out to be the re-election effort of Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. (who tried to get the GOP presidential nomination). With 201 of 280 precincts reporting, she has 49.99 percent of the vote to Democratic challenger Jim Graves' 49.72 percent. 11/07/12 More
  • 1:21 am
    Coming up shortly: President Obama will address his supporters at McCormick Place in Chicago. 11/07/12
  • 1:15 am
    When will we hear about Florida? The votes won't all be counted, the Miami Herald says, until sometime later today (Wednesday). At 10:50 p.m. ET Tuesday, there were still lines of voters at some precincts in Miami-Dade. Also, about 18,000 absentee ballots came in on Tuesday and need to be counted. At 1:15 a.m. ET, the president led by about 60,000 votes. 11/07/12 More
  • 1:07 am
    Milestones: New Hampshire's congressional delegation will now be entirely female (two members of the House; two members of the Senate). And the state's next governor is a woman. 11/07/12
  • 1:04 am
    In conclusion, Mitt Romney asks his supporters to move on from the hard-fought campaign against President Obama and "to earnestly pray for [the president] and for this great nation." 11/07/12
  • 1:04 am
    Leaders, Mitt Romney tells disappointed supporters, must "put the people before the politics." He adds that "I believe in America, I believe in the people of America." 11/07/12
  • 12:56 am
    "I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory," Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney just told supporters in Boston. 11/07/12
  • 12:52 am
    Associated Press: Obama aide says Romney has called the president to concede. 11/07/12 More
  • 12:49 am
    CBS News: "Gov. Romney has called President Obama to concede." NPR has not independently confirmed that. 11/07/12 More
  • 12:34 am
    Democrat Tammy Baldwin has won the Senate seat in Wisconsin, The Associated Press and NPR project, defeating Republican Tommy Thompson, a former governor of the state. She will be the first openly gay member of the Senate. Her win keeps the seat in Democratic hands. Sen. Herb Kohl did not seek re-election. 11/07/12
  • 12:28 am
    Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan did win one election tonight. He was re-elected to his seat in the House of Representatives. 11/07/12
  • 12:26 am
    President Obama hasn't come out to speak yet, but his campaign has tweeted: "Four more years." 11/07/12 More
  • 12:16 am
    President Obama is the winner in Virginia, NPR projects. That would add another 13 Electoral College votes to his total, bringing him to 303. (Reminder: it takes 270 to be elected.) 11/07/12
  • 12:12 am
    Mitt Romney won't be making a statement for another "15 minutes to as long as an hour," NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 11/07/12
  • 12:11 am
    FiveThirtyEight.com prognosticator Nate Silver came under some fire in recent days for his presidential projections. His last forecast had President Obama winning 313 Electoral College votes to Mitt Romney's 225. Critics said he was biased in Obama's favor. In the end, Obama may end up with more electoral votes than than Silver forecast. 11/07/12 More
  • 12:04 am
    Maine voters have approved a same-sex marriage initiative, The Associated Press reports. It's the first time such a law has been passed by voters. In six other states and Washington, D.C., such laws were "either enacted by lawmakers or through court rulings," AP notes. I 11/07/12
  • 12:01 am
    What's going on in Florida? The president is ahead by more than 50,000 votes. 11/07/12 More
  • 11:59 pm
    What's going on in Virginia? President Obama is leading by more than 50,000 votes with nearly all precincts counted. 11/06/12 More
  • 11:56 pm
    President Obama won just less than 53 percent of the vote in 2008. Correspondent Alan Greenblatt notes that it looks like Obama will be "just the third president in U.S. history to have been reelected with a smaller share of the vote than when he was first elected. The other two were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson." 11/06/12
  • 11:51 pm
    An Electoral College victory, but not a popular vote win at this point: President Obama and Mitt Romney each have about 49 percent of the vote right now -- with Romney slightly ahead in the actual count. 11/06/12
  • 11:48 pm
    How did the president win? In part thanks to "maniacal, years-long, state-level preparation," NPR's Liz Halloran writes. And it helped that Mitt Romney was "fatally hobbled by damage inflicted during a long and harsh GOP primary season." 11/06/12 More
  • 11:45 pm
    Put Colorado's nine Electoral College votes in President Obama's column, NPR projects. 11/06/12
  • 11:41 pm
    Nevada went with President Obama, NPR projects. His Electoral College total is now up to 281. 11/06/12
  • 11:39 pm
    So, after the first "billion dollar presidential campaign" and after bitter battles for the control of the House and Senate, here's where we appear to have ended up: With the White House and Senate still in Democratic hands and the House of Representatives still controlled by Republicans. 11/06/12
  • 11:35 pm
    States still left to be heard from on the presidential race: Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Alaska. 11/06/12
  • 11:33 pm
    Wisdom of the masses? Readers of The Two-Way were asked when we would hear who won the presidential election. The largest group -- 32 percent -- said "between 10 p.m. ET and midnight Tuesday." 11/06/12 More
  • 11:28 pm
    OBAMA WINS: After a hard-fought battle with Republican Mitt Romney, President Obama has been re-elected, NPR now projects. With 10 Electoral College votes from Wisconsin now in his win column, the president has 275 -- five more than needed to be president. 11/06/12
  • 11:20 pm
    With Ohio in President Obama's win column, he is five Electoral College votes short of being re-elected. Key states still to be called: Florida, Virginia, Colorado, Wisconsin and Nevada. 11/06/12
  • 11:18 pm
    NPR and The Associated Press now project a win for President Obama in Ohio -- the state that pundits said would determine who wins the White House. NPR has not yet projected a winner of the race for the White House. 11/06/12
  • 11:17 pm
    A winner? NBC News just projected that President Obama has been re-elected. And Fox News just called Ohio for President Obama. NPR has not yet made either of those calls. 11/06/12
  • 11:13 pm
    One battleground state gets taken off the board: NPR is projecting a win for President Obama in Iowa. 11/06/12
  • 11:11 pm
    Here's what you need to know if you're just tuning in: Polls are closed everywhere except Alaska. The presidential races in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin remain too close to call. In short, the battle for the battlegrounds continues. 11/06/12
  • 11:08 pm
    Missouri's 10 Electoral College votes go to Republican Mitt Romney, NPR projects. 11/06/12
  • 11:01 pm
    More presidential calls, none of them surprises: NPR projects wins for President Obama in California, Hawaii and Washington State. Mitt Romney has won in Idaho. 11/06/12
  • 10:58 pm
    Republican George Allen has conceded the Virginia Senate race to Democrat Tim Kaine, The Associated Press reports. Both are former governors. The seat would not switch parties. Sen. James Webb, a Democrat, did not seek re-election. 11/06/12
  • 10:55 pm
    A swing state pickup for Mitt Romney: He won in North Carolina, NPR and The Associated Press project. 11/06/12
  • 10:54 pm
    "This place is like a pressure cooker," NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Ohio. 11/06/12
  • 10:52 pm
    A prediction from someone who can't have fond memories of a presidential vote in Florida: "I am confident in saying that President Obama is going to carry the state of Florida tonight," tweets 2000 Democratic nominee Al Gore. 11/06/12 More
  • 10:48 pm
    President Obama has won in Minnesota, NPR projects. That's another state (along with Pennsylvania and Michigan) that conservatives and Mitt Romney's campaign had hoped to pick up with an "expanded battleground" strategy. 11/06/12
  • 10:46 pm
    Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri has won re-election, NPR and The Associated Press project. Her Republican challenger, Rep. Todd Akin, drew national attention for saying that "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." 11/06/12 More
  • 10:42 pm
    What's going on in Florida? We've seen closer presidential races there, of course, but not by much. According to the state Division of Elections, with nearly 8 million votes cast the president leads by less than 20,000. 11/06/12 More
  • 10:40 pm
    Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has won Arizona and its 11 Electoral College votes, NPR and The Associated Press project. 11/06/12
  • 10:36 pm
    What's going on in Virginia? The commonwealth's Board of Elections has details on its website. There's less than one percentage point separating Mitt Romney and President Obama -- but many precincts in more-liberal Northern Virginia have yet to report results. 11/06/12 More
  • 10:29 pm
    "My concern for this nation grows greater," defeated Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says, tearfully. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports that the GOP candidate says he was "attacked for standing for my principles." 11/06/12
  • 10:26 pm
    What's going on in Ohio? The secretary of state's website is slightly ahead of some other sources. It says nearly 54 percent of precincts have reported results. President Obama leads Mitt Romney by about 2 percentage points. 11/06/12 More
  • 10:22 pm
    President Obama has won New Mexico's five electoral votes, NPR projects. Mitt Romney has picked up wins in Utah (six electoral votes) and Montana (three). 11/06/12
  • 10:18 pm
    "There's a lot of night left here in Columbus," NPR's Tamara Keith says from Ohio, where votes are still being counted and likely will be for quite a while yet. 11/06/12
  • 10:16 pm
    Polls are now closed in Iowa and Nevada, two more swing states. Add them to the others that are too close to call: Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin. 11/06/12
  • 10:10 pm
    Democrat Elizabeth Warren has defeated Republican Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts, NPR and The Associated Press projects. Brown won what had been Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat after the liberal icon's death in 2009. 11/06/12
  • 10:05 pm
    While it looks like Republicans will gain seats in the House, it's looking like Democrats will hold their slight edge in the Senate, NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving says. 11/06/12
  • 9:57 pm
    Democrat Joe Donnelly has defeated Republican Richard Mourdock to win the Senate seat in Indiana, NPR and The Associated Press project. Mourdock drew criticism for his comment that a pregnancy caused by rape is "something that God intended to happen." 11/06/12 More
  • 9:52 pm
    President Obama has won New Hampshire, NPR projects. That's a battleground state in his win column. It's also where Mitt Romney has a vacation home and is next door to Massachusetts, where Romney was governor. 11/06/12
  • 9:51 pm
    Republicans will keep control of the House, NPR now projects. 11/06/12
  • 9:50 pm
    The story so far: Key states where polls have closed but the presidential races are still too close to call include Virginia, Florida and Ohio. There have not been any major surprises yet. But President Obama is the projected winner in Pennsylvania, a big state that Mitt Romney wanted to win. 11/06/12
  • 9:44 pm
    NPR projects a win for President Obama in Pennsylvania. That's a big state, with 20 Electoral College votes, that Mitt Romney had hoped to pick up. 11/06/12
  • 9:41 pm
    With about 7 million votes counted in Florida, Mitt Romney is leading President Obama by about 20,000, NPR's Russell Lewis says. There are nearly 12 million registered voters in the state. 11/06/12
  • 9:37 pm
    CBS News is projecting a win for President Obama in New Hampshire. NPR has not yet called that state. 11/06/12
  • 9:33 pm
    It's looking like Republicans may add at least a few seats to their majority in the House of Representatives, NPR's Ken Rudin says on the air. 11/06/12
  • 9:31 pm
    "President Barack Obama leads GOP challenger Mitt Romney 52% to 46% in the exit poll taken on election day in Wisconsin," writes The Wisconsin Voter blog at Milwaukee's Journal Sentinel. 11/06/12 More
  • 9:28 pm
    Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has been re-elected in Ohio, NPR projects. A lot of money was spent in the state by conservatives and Republicans who hoped to pick up his seat. 11/06/12
  • 9:25 pm
    Ohio's secretary of state says there haven't been any "significant voting problems" in that keyest of key swing states. Possible sign that there won't be major legal challenges down the road? 11/06/12 More
  • 9:18 pm
    NBC News is projecting a win for President Obama in Pennsylvania. NPR has not yet made that call. 11/06/12
  • 9:15 pm
    "The line from both [presidential] campaigns" tonight to their supporters is that if you're still in line to vote "stay in line," NPR's Ari Shapiro says. That's how close things remain. 11/06/12
  • 9:13 pm
    Republicans were expected to keep control of the House of Representatives, and CNN is now projecting that the GOP will in fact do just that. 11/06/12
  • 9:08 pm
    Latest NPR calls: President Obama wins in New Jersey (no surprise) and Mitt Romney wins in Nebraska (also no surprise). 11/06/12
  • 9:05 pm
    Add Colorado and Minnesota to the list of closely watched states where polls are now closed but the presidential race is too tight to call. Already on that list: Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. So, the wait continues. 11/06/12
  • 9:00 pm
    More calls after 9 p.m. ET poll closings, none of them surprises: NPR projects wins for Mitt Romney in Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. And NPR projects that President Obama has, as expected, won in New York. 11/06/12
  • 9:00 pm
    President Obama has won Michigan's 16 electoral votes, NPR projects. That's not a big surprise, but is a win in challenger Mitt Romney's native state and one that some conservatives had once hoped Romney could pick up. 11/06/12
  • 8:58 pm
    Democrat Maggie Hassan has been elected governor of New Hampshire, NPR projects. 11/06/12
  • 8:45 pm
    Still waiting for: Enough results to make calls on the presidential races in the key states of Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. 11/06/12
  • 8:39 pm
    "Higher black turnout in Ohio" could be helping President Obama, Pew Research Center's Andrew Kohut tells NPR. He's been dissecting early exit polls of voters. 11/06/12
  • 8:36 pm
    Another state goes into Mitt Romney's win column: As expected, he took Arkansas, NPR projects. 11/06/12
  • 8:35 pm
    NPR projects a win for Democrat Chris Murphy in Connecticut's Senate race. He was up against Republican Linda McMahon, who first came to prominence as an executive in the world of professional wrestling. 11/06/12
  • 8:28 pm
    On the air: Conservative columnist Matt Continetti sifts the early exit polls and says there's a chance of a popular/electoral split. Liberal columnist E.J. Dionne says it's too soon to say that. 11/06/12
  • 8:23 pm
    The story so far: The presidential races are too close to call in the battleground states where polls have closed (Virginia, Ohio, Florida and New Hampshire). And no surprises yet in any of the other states. 11/06/12
  • 8:18 pm
    Pick your meme: Plain Dealer political analyst Mark Naymik says he may start a new Twitter account if Ohio can't declare a winner. Should it be @OHwait or @OHcantcount? He wonders. 11/06/12 More
  • 8:14 pm
    Mitt Romney also told reporters today that he's only written one speech -- a victory address. He said he hasn't penned a concession, NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 11/06/12
  • 8:10 pm
    No elections official in the nation may come under more scrutiny than Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican. His office is tweeting throughout the evening. 11/06/12 More
  • 8:09 pm
    Former Maine Gov. Angus King has been elected to the Senate from his home state, The Associated Press projects. He's an independent who's expected to caucus with Democrats. NPR is also projecting a victory for King. 11/06/12
  • 8:02 pm
    Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, has been re-elected in Florida, NPR projects. He was challenged by Republican Rep. Connie Mack. 11/06/12
  • 8:00 pm
    8 p.m. ET calls: NPR projects wins for President Obama in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. NPR projects wins for Mitt Romney in Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi. 11/06/12
  • 7:56 pm
    Virginia elections officials say they've paused releasing vote results because "many voters remain in lines in certain areas of the Commonwealth." 11/06/12
  • 7:51 pm
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been re-elected, NPR projects. He caucuses with Democrats and was expected to win easily. 11/06/12
  • 7:47 pm
    Similar exit poll analysis from The Washington Post: "Electorate slightly more Republican than 2008." 11/06/12 More
  • 7:43 pm
    In early exit polls of voters in Virginia, "we don't see any places where Obama has picked up support compared to four years ago," the Pew Research Center's Andrew Kohut just said on the NPR broadcast. Instead, he's getting less support among some key groups. 11/06/12
  • 7:37 pm
    How tight might the race be in Ohio, the state that could determine who wins the White House? In early exit polls, 50 percent said they had "negative" feelings about the Obama administration; 49 percent had "positive" feelings. 11/06/12
  • 7:32 pm
    The other two states that closed their polls at 7:30 p.m. ET, North Carolina and Ohio, have many more Electoral College votes than West Virginia. But they're too close to call at this moment. 11/06/12 More
  • 7:30 pm
    Polls just closed in West Virginia and NPR is projecting that -- as expected -- Republican Mitt Romney takes that state's five electoral votes. 11/06/12
  • 7:28 pm
    The victory speech Mitt Romney hopes to deliver is written, the candidate told reporters today. "It's about 1,118 words," he said. 11/06/12
  • 7:25 pm
    A presidential advantage: Former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen was on the president's team today during Obama's now-traditional Election Day game of hoops. 11/06/12
  • 7:17 pm
    Historical note: With NPR and others news outlets projecting a win in Indiana for Republican Mitt Romney, that means President Obama didn't "flip" that state into his win column as he did in 2008. 11/06/12
  • 7:13 pm
    Next up: West Virginia, North Carolina and the most-contested of the closely contested states -- Ohio. Polls close in those states at 7:30 p.m. ET. 11/06/12
  • 7:11 pm
    Reminder: It takes 270 Electoral College votes to become president. In 2008, the final tally was 365 for Barack Obama, 173 for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. 11/06/12 More
  • 7:08 pm
    So if you're keeping count, the early calls put 44 Electoral College votes in Mitt Romney's column; three in President Obama's. Again, none of them are surprises. 11/06/12 More
  • 7:06 pm
    Next NPR calls: Mitt Romney won in Georgia and South Carolina. That's also based on information from exit polls, not actual vote counts. 11/06/12
  • 7:04 pm
    Still to be called: the presidential race in the key swing state of Virginia, where polls just closed. 11/06/12
  • 7:02 pm
    First calls: NPR projects wins for Mitt Romney in Indiana and Kentucky; a win for President Obama in Vermont. None are surprises. The projections are based mostly on exit polls of voters. 11/06/12
  • 6:57 pm
    Saturation coverage: "An estimated one million commercials aired in nine battleground states where the rival camps agreed the election was most likely to be settled," AP says. 11/06/12
  • 6:53 pm
    NPR's Julie Rovner on early exit polls: "While the president appears to be maintaining strong majorities among minority voters, Mitt Romney seems to be outpolling John McCain among white voters." 11/06/12
  • 6:49 pm
    Headline from Virginia: "Turnout likely higher than in 2008, state elections official says." 11/06/12 More
  • 6:45 pm
    Virginia's Board of Elections will post results from the presidential race and the battle for the Senate between former governors George Allen (R) and Tim Kaine (D) online. 11/06/12 More
  • 6:40 pm
    On immigration, AP reports, 3 in 10 voters surveyed in early exit polls "said that most illegal immigrants working in the U.S. should be deported. Nearly two-thirds said such people should be offered a chance to apply for legal status." 11/06/12
  • 6:35 pm
    Fifty percent of voters in early exit polls "favored repealing some or all of Obamacare," AP says. "Forty-three percent preferred that the health care law be expanded or left as is." 11/06/12
  • 6:32 pm
    More from AP's analysis of early exit polls: "Six in 10 voters said that taxes should be increased. ... Just over one-third said taxes should not be increased for anyone. 11/06/12
  • 6:28 pm
    We're rapidly approaching the closing of polls in the first "swing state." Virginia's voting ends at 7 p.m. ET. Another key race in a state that closes at 7 p.m. ET: the battle for the Senate from Indiana. As NPR's Ken Rudin wrote this week: "If Richard Mourdock (R) loses in Indiana, you can kiss the GOP's hopes of winning a majority in the Senate goodbye." 11/06/12 More
  • 5:45 pm
    President Obama has been spending the day in Chicago. Earlier today, he went to one of his campaign's offices near his home there to make get-out-the-vote calls. Obama also did something that's become an Election Day ritual for him: he played basketball with friends. Of GOP nominee Mitt Romney, the president said, "congratulations on a spirited campaign." 11/06/12
  • 5:39 pm
    Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney "has been spending Election Day thanking volunteers and staffers -- not coincidentally, ones that happen to be working in swing states that he’d like to win tonight," NPR's Ari Shapiro just reported on our Newscast. In Pittsburgh, Romney said of President Obama that "I believe he's a good man and wish him well ... but it's time for a new direction." 11/06/12
  • 5:26 pm
    More from the AP's first story about early "exit poll" interviews: "About 4 in 10 [voters] say they think the nation's economy is on the mend, but more say that things are getting worse or are bad and stagnating. About half of voters say the previous president, George W. Bush, shoulders more of the blame for economic challenges than President Barack Obama." 11/06/12
  • 5:23 pm
    Click this post to go to the board that NPR hosts and election staff will be watching to see results of 50 top House races. 11/06/12 More
  • 5:23 pm
    Click this post to go to the board that NPR hosts and election staff will be watching to see results of the Senate races. 11/06/12 More
  • 5:21 pm
    Want to see the "big boards" that NPR hosts and elections staff are watching tonight as the votes come in? Click this post to go to the board with presidential results. 11/06/12 More
  • 5:15 pm
    Early exit poll fodder from The Associated Press: "Preliminary results ... show that the presidential election hinges once again on the economy. The survey of voters as they leave polling places Tuesday shows 6 in 10 voters say the economy is the top issue facing the nation, with unemployment and rising prices hitting voters hard." 11/06/12
  • 5:11 pm
    For those who want to plan their snack breaks, here are some of the key poll closing times: Virginia at 7 p.m. ET; Ohio at 7:30 p.m. ET; Pennsylvania and all of Florida by 8 p.m. ET; Colorado, Minnesota and Wisconsin at 9 p.m. ET; Iowa and Nevada at 10 p.m. ET; California at 11 p.m. ET. Of course, closing times don't mean that's when we'll know who won those states. 11/06/12
  • 5:05 pm
    Happy Election Day! We're glad you've joined us. Let's get started. 11/06/12
  • 6:24 pm
    Welcome to NPR's live-blogging of Election Night 2012. Starting between 5 and 6 p.m. ET Tuesday and continuing until late night, early Wednesday morning or perhaps even longer, we'll be following the news as it happens and posting updates here. We hope you join us. 11/05/12

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